US runs risk of losing Turkey as a whole: Erdoğan aide

Threats and sanctions against Turkey will not work, presidential spokesman İbrahim Kalın said on Saturday.

“The U.S. runs the risk of losing Turkey as a whole. The entire Turkish public is against U.S. policies that disregard Turkey’s legitimate security demands.

“Threats, sanctions and bullying against Turkey will not work. It will only increase Turkey’s resolve. But it will also further isolate the U.S. in both Turkey and on the international scene,” Kalin wrote in his weekly column in the English-language Daily Sabah newspaper.

Kalin’s remarks came a day after U.S. President Donald Trump ramped up his attack on Turkey by doubling U.S. tariffs on Turkish aluminum and steel imports to 20 percent and 50 percent, respectively.

"It's barbarism. I see it coming masqueraded under lawless alliances and predetermined enslavements. It may not be about Hitler's furnaces, but about the methodical and quasi-scientific subjugation of Man. His absolute humiliation. His disgrace"

Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet, in a press conference on the occasion of receiving the Nobel Prize (1979)